[Somehow, it was much easier to admit as much aloud to a child than...well, to even Phoenix himself. She hardly even blushed.]
What about you? Is there anyone you like very much?
[It was also that much easier to turn the question right around. Not that she was anticipating a real answer. He was only...what, seven? Too young, in her mind, to feel for someone what she felt for Phoenix.]
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[Somehow, it was much easier to admit as much aloud to a child than...well, to even Phoenix himself. She hardly even blushed.]
What about you? Is there anyone you like very much?
[It was also that much easier to turn the question right around. Not that she was anticipating a real answer. He was only...what, seven? Too young, in her mind, to feel for someone what she felt for Phoenix.]